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[http://www.eclipse.org/acceleo Acceleo 3.0] is a pragmatic implementation of the [http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/ OMG Model-to-text specification]. It supports the developer with most of the features that can be expected from a top quality code generator IDE: simple syntax, efficient code generation, advanced tooling, features on par with the JDT ... Acceleo also has a unique tooling around example-based design of code generators.

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[[Image:Logo obeo.png|left|Obeo]] [http://www.eclipse.org/acceleo Acceleo 3.0] is a pragmatic implementation of the [http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/ OMG Model-to-text specification]. It supports the developer with most of the features that can be expected from a top quality code generator IDE: simple syntax, efficient code generation, advanced tooling, features on par with the JDT ... Acceleo also has a unique tooling around example-based design of code generators.

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Acceleo 3.0 is a pragmatic implementation of the OMG Model-to-text specification. It supports the developer with most of the features that can be expected from a top quality code generator IDE: simple syntax, efficient code generation, advanced tooling, features on par with the JDT ... Acceleo also has a unique tooling around example-based design of code generators.

Presentation

Acceleo 3.0 is a pragmatic implementation of the OMG Model-to-text specification. It supports the developer with most of the features that can be expected from a top quality code generator IDE: simple syntax, efficient code generation, advanced tooling, features on par with the JDT ... Acceleo also has a unique tooling around example-based design of code generators.

Documentation

The full documentation is included in the Help Content of Eclipse; in your Eclipse, go to Help => Help Contents and navigate to the Acceleo Model To Text section. The very same help is accessible online on the help center.

History

Acceleo.org was created in 2005, and as the time goes, the Team has been more and more convinced that the MOF Model To Text OMG specification was the way to go for the project. We started to code a reference implementation for the standard within the Eclipse M2T project. We have managed to provide nice tooling, simple syntax and efficient code generation with all the pragmatism we had about Acceleo.org. There aren't a lot of differences between the old version of acceleo and the new one.

We are confident that the Acceleo community gain value from moving to a self hosted project to an Eclipse one, and that end users will follow the transfert from Acceleo.org to Eclipse.org as we will provide the same level of functionnalities and we will insure an interoperability between the old syntax and the new syntax (the standard one).

The Acceleo Team will continue to maintain the old syntax of Acceleo outside of eclipse (www.acceleo.org ) during some few years, but the new versions and the new features will take place on Eclipse.org. In the next release you'll have an automated tooling helping you to migrate your templates from a syntax to another.

For Acceleo lover, you will find in Eclipse Acceleo everything you have loved in the Acceleo.org version and more (the standard compliance with more documentation).
This specification is really a good one : http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0

For Helios, this is the first time we plan to graduate under Eclipse. We also plan to grow the version number from 0.9.0 to 3.0.0 because
the last release of Acceleo outside of Eclipse was the 2.7.0 version (Acceleo.org). We are also in the process of transferring the community,
and for a community point of view, it is clearer to graduate and set the new Eclipse version as 3.0.0.

Videos

Tutorials

Features

Acceleo has been created with the objective of having the best tooling possible to generate code. As such, Acceleo possess several key features like an editor with syntax highlighting, errors detection, completion, refactoring etc. This editor is helped by a debugger, a profiler, and a traceability API which allow us to show the user the elements from its input models and the region of its generators that have been involved in the generation of a selected element. The features available in Acceleo can be found here. On this page, you can also find some of the exciting new features that we want to bring in the next release of Acceleo.

Community

Acceleo is an Eclipse based generator but it is also a community, and you can find the Acceleo community on Twitter or on the forums. You can also learn more about Acceleo thanks to the blogs of some members of our dev' team.